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= EARLY HOMINIDS
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= A fourth Denisovan fossil (a tooth) has been identified:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-fourth-denisovan-fossil.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5722-170710-denisovan-fossil-found

Teeth also figure in a study of homo naledi’s diet:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-chipped-teeth-homo-naledi-unique.html

More on Otzi’s axe:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/copper-otzi-icemans-ax-came-surprisingl
y-far-away

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= ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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=

What Zahi Hawass is up to:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/273548/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/
Hawass-receives-honorary-doctorate-in-Peru,-promot.aspx

More on Egypt’s plans to renovate an ‘ancient’ synagogue:

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4989011,00.html

A very interesting kiln find from Shkikin:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.801296

Hundreds of interesting tombs from Jebel Qurma (Jordan):

https://www.livescience.com/59785-hundreds-of-tombs-discovered-jordan-des
ert.html
https://www.livescience.com/59784-photo-jebel-qurma-stone-tombs.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5734-170713-jordan-jebel-qurma

Excavations at Karkamis have concluded:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavation-works-in-ancient-karkamis-end.a
spx?pageID=238&nid=115519&NewsCatID=375

Feature on the Tell Brak excavations:

http://gulfnews.com/culture/people/digging-up-syria-s-past-1.2057937

A report on some 16th century cannons found off Israel in the 1970s:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/cannons-found-off-israeli-coast-may-have-been-
used-to-fight-16th-century-pirates/

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= ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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= Plenty of coverage of the find of more writing tablets at Vindolanda:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/10/new-cache-of-roman-letters-
discovered-at-hadrians-wall
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/10/holiday-please-new-haul-roman-l
etters-reveals-army-life-near/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-40555474
https://www.livescience.com/59753-personal-roman-letters-unearthed-hadrian
s-wall.html
http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2017-07-10/ancient-roman-writing-tablets-fo
und-at-northumberland-fort/
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/voices-distant-past-unear
thed-during-13309555
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cache-messages-found-roman-fo
rt-along-hadrians-wall-180964012/
https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/roman-writing-tablets-found-at
-vindolanda.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5721-170710-england-vindolanda-tablets

A Roman fleet diploma was found near Lanchester Roman fort:

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/incredible-fleet-diploma-d
etailing-naval-13313528

Roman finds from Swaledale:

http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2017/07/11/high-status-roman-artefacts-found-s
waledale/

Hellenistic-era buildings and a bridge from Alexandria:

http://world.greekreporter.com/2017/07/10/greek-archaeologist-discovers-anci
ent-buildings-in-alexandria-egypt/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26253-greek-archaeologist-un
earths-ancient-buildings-and-bridge-in-alexandria-egypt.html

This Roman-era mosaic floor from Alexandria seems to be distinct from the
above find:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/273560/Heritage/GrecoRoman/
Mosaic-floor-from-Roman-period-uncovered-in-Alexan.aspx

Eight more shipwrecks have been located at Fourni:

https://www.livescience.com/59805-divers-find-8-more-shipwrecks-greece.htm
l http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.801529
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/07/14/eight-new-shipwrecks-discovered-
during-underwater-exploration-near-fournoi/

Roman mosaics from a dig in Auch in the Gers:

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Amazing-mosaics-found-in-rui
ns-of-Roman-domus

Greece and Italy are collaborating to preserve a sunken villa at Epidaurus:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/07/11/greece-italy-collaborate-to-preserv
e-ancient-mansion-in-sea-bottom/

Feature on the dig at Vaiano-Gioiella:

http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/33143/

A Roman cemetery from Irbid (Jordan):

http://www.menafn.com/1095620062/Jordan--Ancient-Cemetery-Found-in-Irbid

… and more, apparently:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/19-roman-ruins-found-irbid%E2%80%9
9s-beit-ras-town-%E2%80%94-antiquities-department

A 4th century BCE juvenile burial from the Crimea:

http://tass.com/society/956132

The excavations at Sagalassos have resumed:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/new-excavation-season-starts-in-ancient-sa
galassos.aspx?pageID=238&nID=115475&NewsCatID=375

A study suggests ancient Greek theatres had moveable stages (I think we
knew that, no?):

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/ku-agt071117.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-ancient-greek-theaters-moveable-stages.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170711092641.htm
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/dramatic-discovery-reveals-secrets-2000-year-old-lin
es-ground-ancient-greek-theatre-1630067
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5728-170712-greek-moveable-stages

… and the ‘pin drop’ test doesn’t always work as advertised:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pin-drop-test-pops-greek-amphitheater-ac
oustic-claims

The burials from Phaleron are in the news again (not sure there’s anything
new yet):

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-archaeologists-high-tech-year-old-greek-cold.ht
ml
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/archaeologists-high-tech-2-500-old-greek-cold-03
0929020.html
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26348-archaeologists-in-athe
ns-discover-2-500-year-old-greek-mystery.html

Fires on Vesuvius received a lot of press attention:

https://www.thelocal.it/20170711/blaze-at-vesuvius-fires-continue-southern-ita
ly-sicily-messina-enna
https://www.thelocal.it/20170712/in-pictures-fire-at-italys-mount-vesuvius-napl
es-campania
https://www.livescience.com/59798-mount-vesuvius-is-on-fire.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/12/c_136436285.htm
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/wildfires-rage-mount-vesuvius-121453578.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mount-vesuvius-fire-latest-lo
cal-residents-evacuated-naples-toxic-smoke-volcano-eruption-italy-a7837096.
html
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-image-vesuvius.html

… while Pompeii’s corrupt past is being dealt with:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/07/10/pompeii-rises-from-the-
ashes-by-rejecting-its-history-of-crime-and-corruption/

… and a heatwave closed sites in Greece for a while:

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Greek-archaeological-sites-cha
nge-opening-hours-11282646.php
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/07/12/greek-archaeological-sites-to-shut
-down-midday-during-heatwave/

What Daniel Berman is up to:

https://news.temple.edu/news/2017-07-12/vice-provost-undergraduate-studies
-appointment

What Mike Tueller is up to:

https://asunow.asu.edu/20170713-asu-professor-helps-students-learn-lead-an
d-innovate

What Abigail Firey is up to:

https://uknow.uky.edu/research/digital-humanities-projects-medievalist-abigai
l-firey-reach-scholars-across-globe

Honours for Peter and Sara Howard (the url preserves a previous headline
howler):

http://www.troymessenger.com/2017/07/15/howards-honored-classical-music-
group-honors-troy-couple/

Feature on the Olympias;

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/14/c_136442197.htm

… while a Roman dugboat recreation is in the making:

https://english.sta.si/2409684/replica-of-roman-dugboat-in-the-making

Feature on Roman aqueducts:

http://www.theday.com/entertainment/20170714/exploring-aqueducts-role-in-a
ncient-rome

Hungary purchased the remaining half of the Sevso Treasure:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/hungary-buys-2nd-half-of-roma
n-era-silver-treasure/2017/07/12/a4674490-6715-11e7-94ab-5b1f0ff459df_stor
y.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hungary-buys-2nd-half-roman-e
ra-silver-treasure-48589208
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-07-12/hungary-buys-2nd-h
alf-of-roman-era-silver-treasure
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/12/c_136439005.htm

UNESCO gave Aphrodisias Heritage Status:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/07/11/magnificent-ancient-site-of-aphrodisia
s-in-unesco-world-heritage-list/
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/unesco-inscribes-turkeys-aphrodisias-as-a-
world-heritage-site.aspx?pageID=238&nid=115310&NewsCatID=375
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26299-ancient-greek-site-of-a
phrodisias-in-unesco-world-heritage-list.html

The fake centurions who harass tourists in Rome are being banned again:

http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/fresh-bid-to-ban-fake-roman-centurions-who-h
arass-tourists-10294617

Review of Hunt, *Hannibal*:

https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2017/0712/Hannibal-relates-
the-famous-general-s-story-with-wonderful-energy

More on that HIppocrates manuscript found in St Catherine’s monastery:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/monks-unearth-1500-year-old-manuscript-by-father-m
edicine-hippocrates-ancient-egypt-1629796
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5723-170710-sinai-monastery-palimpsest

More on Roman concrete:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/ancient/mystery-of-ultrastrong-roman-conc
rete-solved/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rome-wasnt-built-in-a-day-but-it-was
-built-with-engineers/2017/07/13/ead119c0-66b0-11e7-94ab-5b1f0ff459df_stor
y.html

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= EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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= We’re reading more about the ‘House of the Dead’ which might have burials
associated with Stonehenge and/or Avebury:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-ancestors-stonehenge-people-uncovered-hous
e.html
https://www.livescience.com/59787-ancient-house-of-dead-unearthed-in-engla
nd.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/07/11/5000-year-old-house-dead-disc
overed-stonehenge-avebury/
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/15408485.Archaeologists_discover___3
9_house_of_the_dead__39__between_stone_circles/
http://www.brentwoodlive.co.uk/news/national/15405459.Burial_mound_could
_be____House_of_the_Dead____from_3_600_BC/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5735-170713-england-cat-s-brain

Remains of a hut found in the 1950s on Iona and associated with St Columba
apparently dates to the right period:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-40556985
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/11/wooden-hut-associated-st-columb
a-dates-lifetime-archaeologists/
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-st-columba-cell-iona-uncovered.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/remains-of-iona-hut-proved-to-date-from-col
umbas-lifetime-zw8mgcxtj
http://theconversation.com/how-we-found-st-columbas-famous-writing-hut-stas
hed-in-a-cornish-garage-80778
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sixty-years-after-its-discovery-h
ut-scotland-has-been-linked-st-columba-180964048/
http://www.independent.co.uk/News/science/archaeology/christianity-building-
hub-scotland-discovery-monastic-university-glasgow-dark-age-bible-a783436
6.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sixty-years-after-its-discovery-h
ut-scotland-has-been-linked-st-columba-180964048/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5726-170711-scotland-iona-columba

Latest finds from Tintagel suggest it had plenty of trade links with the
Mediterranean:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/13/tintagel-excavations-reveal-
refined-tastes-of-medieval-settlers
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/tintagel-castle/tintagel-dig/
http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/news/national/15408149.Tintagel_Castl
e_a_royal_site_with_Mediterranean_trading_links__experts_suggest/
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/archaeologists-unearth-royal-secrets-of-tinta
gel-castle-s-king/story-30440220-detail/story.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5733-170713-cornwall-tintagel-castle

The search for Buchan’s lost monastery has found some earlier (date-wise)
structural remains:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/north-east/1287288/the-hunt-for-bu
chans-lost-monastery-uncovers-remains-of-prehistoric-structures/

A medieval stone from the Howff:

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/467714/rare-medieval-ston
e-found-at-the-howff/

Finds from various periods from a dig in Prescot:

www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/15408833.Archaeological_dig_unearths__fasci
nating__historical_artefacts/

Plans to check out some sites in Andalucia:

https://www.rtnnewspaper.com/2017/07/temple-of-doom/

Suggestion that Hendraburnick Quoit might have had some ‘nighttime ritual’
use:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/ancient-british-sacre
d-stones-hiding-secret-messages-that-are-only-visible-at-night/news-story/
4bd326dd44df5202b30ffd2d89658d8d

Concerns for potential sites in Waverly:

http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/new-homes-plan-could-impact-1
3275734

… and Preseli Hills:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-40620024

Some Swabian caves with petroglyphs have been given UNESCO Heritage
status:

http://www.dw.com/en/germanys-new-unesco-world-heritage-site-the-oldest-ice
-age-artworks/g-39306118
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oldest-figurative-art-now-world-tr
easure-180964035/

Pondering the Romanovs:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/opinion/red-century-russia-romanov.html

That ‘oldest rope making thing’ (maybe) is in the news again:

https://www.livescience.com/59756-oldest-ropes-tools-unearthed.html

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= ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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= The dating of a 3800 years bp bird statue from Xinzhai has been confirmed:

http://www.india.com/news/agencies/carbon-dating-confirms-age-of-3800-year-
old-pottery-bird-statue-2314840/

Recreating a Mesolithic meal from Lakutia:

http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/pictured-the-remains-of-a-stone-ag
e-fish-supper-from-8000-years-ago/

Plenty of finds from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace site:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1055819.shtml
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2439847&CategoryId=13936

Feature on the Tao River Archaeological Project:

http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/07/harvard-summer-archaeology-ancient-ch
ina

Sambor Prei Kuk has received UNESCO Heritage status:

https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second/temples-recognized-cambodias-third-
world-heritage-site-132312/

Feature on the Kanozero petroglyphs:

http://tass.com/science/955534

Concerns for an Ashoka site in Patna:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/famed-ashokan-pataliputra-site-in-
patna-is-waterlogged-faces-uncertain-future-asi-writes-to-cgwb/story-tZAhqXiu
0Y4lKoacv3VIVN.html

Vietnamese antiquities are coming to auction:

http://en.nhandan.org.vn/culture/item/5339302-vietnamese-antiquities-to-be-s
old-in-first-of-its-kind-auction.html

Tomb robbing is on the rise in China, apparently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/world/asia/china-tomb-robbing-qin-dynas
ty.html

More on ‘giant’ burials in China:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/graveyard-giants-found-china-18
0963976/

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http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html
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= NORTH AMERICA
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= Finds from various periods (including 11 000 years bp!) from a dig in West
Haven:

http://digital.vpr.net/post/archeological-dig-west-haven-unearths-evidence-ver
mont-s-prehistoric-past?mc_cid=9914e3e056&mc_eid=3eb9546919#stream/0

Some 250 years bp jewellery from Fort Michilimackinac:

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/07/250-year-old_trad
e_silver_unea.html

Workers in Quebec City uncovered a live (!) British cannonball:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40618547
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/15/canadian-workers-unearth-live-bri
tish-cannonball-buried-250/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/quebec-cannonball-90kg-e
xplode-britain-1759-canada-photos-a7843056.html
http://www.newsweek.com/quebec-canada-637346

Digging an 18th century house site in Boston:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/07/10/city-archeologist-digs-into-his
toric-north-end/5JlrwtSIXL4NvHVPZIDv7J/story.html

… and the house of Paul Revere’s cousin:

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/07/11/archaeologists-pierce-hichborn-house-
paul-revere/

… and John Brown’s New York farm:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-students-john-brown-ny-farm.html

An important sherd find from the Acadia Project:

http://www.iberianet.com/news/sherd-big-find-for-acadia-project/article_55ac6e
c8-6451-11e7-ad56-f3c4e49505ef.html

On Puebloans using fire signals:

https://the-journal.com/articles/56776

OpEd on the Jefferson/Sally Hemmings thing:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/sally-hemings-wasnt-thomas-jeffers
ons-mistress-she-was-his-property/2017/07/06/db5844d4-625d-11e7-8adc-fea
80e32bf47_story.html

… cf:

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/a-well-ordered-household

Thoreau apparently wasn’t quite alone at Walden:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/opinion/thoreaus-invisible-neighbors-at-
walden.html

… and his diet was interesting:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/11/535770269/what-did-thoreau-re
ally-eat-you-might-be-surprised

Other assorted Thoreau items:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/books/review/douglas-brinkley-thoreaus-
wilderness-legacy-walden-pond.html
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/12/536873427/if-thoreau-were-alive-hed-be-shoutin
g-from-the-rafters-biographer-says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/why-i-still-love-henry-d
avid-thoreaus-walden/2017/07/12/7b52c35e-66fc-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_st
ory.html
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/17/274731963/dont-know-what-to-do-with-your-life-
neither-did-thoreau

On Chinese immigrants building Sonoma’s wineries:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/13/536822541/the-forgotten-chine
se-who-built-sonoma-s-wineries

More on Metin Erin’s recreation of ancient weapons:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-re-creating-weapons-discoveries-human-histor
y.html
http://www.chron.com/news/science/article/Re-creating-old-weapons-for-new-di
scoveries-of-11285150.php
http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/news-wire/re-creating-old-weapons-for-ne
w-discoveries-of-human-history/article_3b860c30-0a2a-58c7-9ff1-d0b111b998
19.html

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= CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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= Latest pre-Hispanic find from Mexico City is a ceremonial site associated
with the Calpulli of Cuezcontitlán:

http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/another-pre-hispanic-find-in-mexico-city/

A study of the Rapa Nui diet suggests Easter Island did not decline because
of ‘ecocide’:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/bu-ein071117.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-diet-ancient-people-rapa-nui.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mystery-easter-island-population-collapse-solved-by
-looking-diets-ancient-rapa-nui-1630009
http://www.latercera.com/noticia/la-arqueologia-reescribe-mito-los-habitantes-i
sla-pascua/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5729-170712-easter-island-diet

Brazil’s slave wharf has been given UNESCO Heritage status:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40552282

More on Colombia’s efforts to salvage the gold from the San Jose:

http://nypost.com/2017/07/06/colombia-attempts-to-recover-spanish-shipwreck
-worth-over-1-billion/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/columbia-to-salvage-17bn-treasure-galleon-
vxqnk6h7d

More on those Wari women burials:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,414910,scientists-know-more-abo
ut-women-from-the-pre-inca-tomb.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5724-170710-peru-women-tomb

More on that wolf sacrifice site in Mexico City:

http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/aztec-gold-found-in-15th-century-sacrifice/

More on the tunnel under the Pyramid of the Moon:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/secret-tunnel-linked-to-the-underworld-fo
und-under-mexicos-pyramid-of-the-moon_uk_5965f069e4b09b587d636ca7

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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
===============================================================
= OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
===============================================================
= Some Gainsborough sketches were found at Windsor Castle:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jul/09/thomas-gainsborough-sketch
es-newly-discovered-at-windsor-castle
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-40535231/thomas-gainsborou
gh-sketches-discovered-at-windsor-castle
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40536871

… and unknown Raphaels in the Vatican:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/unknown-raphael-paintings-disc
overed-vatican-180963999/

A possible El Greco in Mexico (I may be mistranslating this one):

https://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2017/07/13/actualidad/
1499905955_250514.html

On the equals sign:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/how-the-equals-sign-changed-the-wor
ld/

… and tally sticks:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40189959

On recreating ancient beer (reviewish):

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-ancient-brews-reveals-tasty-history.html
http://azdailysun.com/lifestyles/ancient-brews-reveals-tasty-history-of-alcohol
/article_e8bdc00c-79d2-5af5-bd9e-a29eff1e6a14.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-humans-liked-getting-tipsy-to
o-180963990/

On some exhumations of famous folk:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/dali-exhumation-famous-death-fo
rensic-science/

Marking St John Ambulance’s 140th:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-40555454

Victor Nuovo continues his look at Hobbes:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201707victor-nuovo-hobbes-politics

On London’s Jewish cemeteries:

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-40386777

Latest test on the Shroud of Turin:

http://www.lastampa.it/2017/07/11/vaticaninsider/eng/inquiries-and-interviews
/shroud-new-study-there-is-blood-of-a-man-tortured-and-killed-c1jdACNKkTlD9
YBPS4kFXM/pagina.html

A New Jersey museum has a stash of 200+ year old wine:

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/14/537276241/new-jersey-museum-holds-a-stash-
221-year-old-madeira-wine

On the popularity of Jane Austen:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/opinion/sunday/
jane-austen-wasnt-shy.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-40093010

Too-many-tourists-from-cruises concerns for ancient sites:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40592247

More on the forensic dogs and the search for Amelia Earhart:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/amelia-earhart-dogs-find-evidence-of-hu
man-dna-on-remote-south-pacific-island-nikumaroro_uk_596357cee4b02e9bd
b0dd10f

… and the ‘photo’ being discredited:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/amelia-earhart-lost-photograph-di
scredited-spd

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/
===============================================================
= MUSEUM MATTERS
===============================================================
= Alma Tadema:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/alma-tadema-deserves-to-be-loved-again/

Scythians/Dothraki:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/15/british-museum-lures-game-thron
es-fans-exhibition-little-known/

Literary Links:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/16/jane-austen-to-star-in-bank-of-
england-literary-links-exhibition

Major authenticity questions at a Mexico Museum in San Francisco:

https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/07/13/mexican-museum-defends-collection-ov
er-authenticity-concerns/
http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/07/most-of-the-pre-columbian-
artefacts-in-the-mexican-museum-of-san-fran-are-fake.html

There’s a new archaeological museum on Tilos:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26292-new-archaeological-m
useum-on-tilos-island-in-greece.html

===============================================================
= THE TECHY SIDE
===============================================================
= Latest facial reconstruction is of some Pictish fellow:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/ancient-picts-face-reconstructed
-10795952
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5737-170714-scotland-pictish-face

A major (probably very useful) expansion to the Canadian Archaeological
Radiocarbon Database:

http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-largest-hoard-of-carbon-dates-goes-globa
l-1.22287

Using synchrotron light to track domestication of seeds from 2000 BCE:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/dls-slu071217.php
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-synchrotron-human-domestication-seeds-bc.ht
ml
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170714071455.htm

More on that facial reconstruction of the 4500 years bp guy:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5725-170711-derbyshire-facial-reconstructio
n

===============================================================
= ON THE DNA FRONT
===============================================================
= General piece on DNA and domestication:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-evidence-rewriting-domestication-ori
gin-stories

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
===============================================================
= TOURISTY THINGS
===============================================================
= Castellucio:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40554843

York:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/jul/12/york-walk-around-ancient-wall
s-minster-railway-station

Romania’s marital prison:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170707-a-medieval-remedy-for-divorce

===============================================================
= CRIME BEAT
===============================================================
= An attempted theft at a West Bank Byzantine church was foiled:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/antiquities-thieves-nabbed-with-a
rtifacts-from-byzantine-era-church/
http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/7/11/palestinian-antiquities-thieves-caug
ht-stealing-pillars-from-ancient-church

An attempt at smuggling coins at the Gaza border was also foiled:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/392823

There’s a growing plundering network between Thailand and Myanmar
apparently:

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/cost-trinkets-growing-archae
ological-looting-network-thailand-myanmar.html

New rules from the EU to help combat looting of sites (especially by groups
tied to ISIL):

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/World/2017/Jul-14/412689-eu-plans-crackdo
wn-on-antiquities-smugglers-militants.ashx
http://www.aina.org/news/20170713121545.htm
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-13/eu-targets-islamic-state-
looting-of-antiquities-to-fund-terror
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-07-13/eu-executive-plans-c
rackdown-on-plunder-smugglers-militants

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/07/culture-crime-news-3-9-july
-2017.html

conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

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= REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
===============================================================
= Another WWII repatriation:

http://www.dw.com/en/stolen-by-a-russian-spy-dutch-painting-now-returned-to-
german-museum/a-39645445

Remember the mummified monk in a statue from a few months back? It’s now
the latest repatriation case:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40606593
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/15/chinese-villagers-head-court-reco
ver-1000-year-old-mummified/

Plenty of opEds this week about the Hobby Lobby ‘settlement’:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/antiquities-trade-hobby-lobby-1.4193811
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hobby-lobby-emboldens-a-black-m
arket-that-robs-countries-of-their-heritage--and-lets-the-violent-profit/2017/07/
09/2214adae-635d-11e7-a4f7-af34fc1d9d39_story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/opinion/hobby-lobby-iraq-artifacts.html
http://culturalheritagelawyer.blogspot.ca/2017/07/hobby-lobby-forfeiture-3-mill
ion-is-not.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/hobby-lobby-suit-exposes-illegal-uae-
antiquities-market-170712092030538.html
http://newsok.com/article/5555957
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/why-hobby-lobby-verdict-1021247
http://theconversation.com/why-archaeological-antiquities-should-not-be-sold-
on-the-open-market-full-stop-54928
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/headlines/0717/130717-archeology-antiquities-looti
ng
http://www.weeklystandard.com/media-coverage-of-hobby-lobbys-antiquities-k
erfuffle-is-revealing/article/2008827
https://hyperallergic.com/390355/dispelling-the-myths-around-the-hobby-lobb
y-antiquities-case/

… and the Museum of the Bible is coming under scrutiny as a result of the
whole situation:

http://www.salon.com/2017/07/09/museum-of-the-bible-is-busted-inside-the-ho
bby-lobby-owners-dodgy-artifact-practices/

In case you missed the story:

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/07/06/hobby-lobby-fined-3-million-fo
r-thousands-of-ancient-artifacts-smuggled-out-of-iraq.html

===============================================================
= NUMISMATICA
===============================================================
= Feature on how ancient coins were made:

http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coins-series-ancient
-coins-made/

A gold aureus of Vespasian is up for sale:

http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/possibly-2nd-known-ancient-roman-gol
d-aureus-vespasian-ma-shops/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n28.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n29.html

More on Roman gold in the Netherlands:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=28626

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
===============================================================
= PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
===============================================================
= Letters from Baghdad:

https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/blogs/staff/entries/2017/jul/12/review-letter
s-from-baghdad-2017-tilda-swinton-narrates-the-fascinating-documentary-abou
t-trailblazing-gertrude-bell/

===============================================================
= AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
===============================================================
= Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/
2630-audio-news-from-archaeologica-2-july-2017-8-july-2017
===============================================================
= OBITUARIES
===============================================================
Martin Aitken:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/07/10/martin-aitken-archaeometrist
-obituary/

Bill Mayer:

http://caas-cw.org/wp/2017/07/13/in-memoriam-bill-mayer/

===============================================================
= CONFERENCES
===============================================================
= Canada Before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping (Nov. 2017)

https://independent.academia.edu/ConferenceCanadabeforeConfederationEarl
yMappingandExploration14981763
===============================================================
= GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
===============================================================
= Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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= PODCASTS/VODCASTS
===============================================================
= Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
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